The annual EAN BrainChallenge quiz took place for the 8th time this year on Sunday afternoon and brought an entertaining and educational competition to the stage of the Main Auditorium at EAN 2025. Team International competed against Team Hosting Countries, and the audience tested their knowledge via interactive voting.
Twelve cases were chosen for this year’s show, and after each question was solved, a short educational explanation was given by the moderators, allowing everybody to enhance their knowledge.
Questions at different difficulty levels were divided into three categories: 1) Where have I lost my mind? 2) I cannot talk, I cannot hear, 3) Not everything is forever.
For the first six questions, teams were given multiple-choice questions, while in the second part, they had to answer open questions as fast as possible by hitting the buzzer first.
This year, the international team competed against a team from the co-hosting countries (Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), and the show was guided by our three fantastic moderators: Margitta Seeck (Switzerland), Adolfo Mazzeo (Italy) and Conny Lee (Austria).
The team members were:
Team Hosting Countries
Aleksandra Ekkert (Lithuania), Janika Körv (Estonia), Ramona Valante (Latvia), Silvia Enriquez Calzada (Spain), Christian Espinoza (Spain), Nicolás Morato (Spain)
Team International
Lakshya J. Basumatary (India), Rick Helmich (The Netherlands), Merve Aktan Süzgün (Austria), Nesrine Kouki (France), Marianna da Silva Rafael Flörkemeier (Germany)
After an exciting competition, Team International took the win; however, both teams and the audience gave a great performance!
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*** Congratulations to Team International – and thank you all for taking part! ****
Thanks must go to all EAN Scientific Panels, who submitted cases for the EAN BrainChallenge 2025:
(in alphabetical order)
Simone Braca, Scientific Panel on Headache
Veronica Cabreira, Coordinating Panel on Functional Neurological Disorders
Elisa Canu, Scientific Panel on Higher Cortical Functions
Raffaele Dubbioso, Gianmaria Senerchia, Scientific Panel on ALS
Sonja Hochmeister, Scientific Panel on Neurocritical care
Laura Kennelly, Scientific Panel on Stroke
Michelangelo Mancuso, Coordinating Panel on Rare Neurological Diseases
Theodoros Mavridis, Scientific Panel on Stroke
Adnan Mujanović, Scientific Panel on Stroke
Marta Olivé-Gadea, Scientific Panel on Stroke
Jacopo Pasquini, Scientific Panel on Neuroimaging
Alberto Picca, Scientific Panel on Neuro-oncology
Alessandro Tessitore, Scientific Panel on Movement Disorders
Thank you all for contributing and participating in the 2025 edition of our popular quiz show!
